President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are pushing a united foreign policy agenda, but the juxtaposition between their rhetoric suggests a good-cop-bad-cop routine fit for criminal interrogations.

Rubio is in lock-step with the White House regarding matters such as the Panama Canal, repatriation of illegal immigrants, U.S. control of the Gaza Strip, the necessity of greater influence on Greenland’s affairs, and the expansion of Chinese power overseas.